Zionist library for boys and girls · 1908-01-01 · 4 · p. Seite 6

-6coincides with the istory of" the development of humanity; and the Jews are a nation, which having once acted as Hie leaven of the social world, is destined to be resurrected with the rest of civilised nations..., "Ho reform of the Jewish religion however extreme, is radical enough for the German Jew. But the* endeavours are in vain. Even conversion itself does not relieve the Jew from the enormous pressure of German antiscmitism. The German hates the Jewish religion less than the race, he objects less to the J.cwsT peculiar beliefs than to their peculiar noses. Neither reform, nor conversion, nor emancipation throws open to the Jew the gates of social life, hence their anxiety to deny their racial descent.... "A common, native soil is a primary condition, if there is to be introduced among the Jews better and more progressive relations between Capital and Labour, the social man, ■ just as the social plant and animal, needs for his growth and development, a wide, free soil; without it he sinks to the status of a parasite, which feeds at the expense of others.... "In exile the Jewish people cannot be regenerated. ...